majoob — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:41:22 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r, you are correct. I removed the slashes in the two rules and all was well.
Thanks.
Now, leave me alone. I'm busy eating my hat.
(Thanks again) I will read the cheat sheet in detail.

Matt

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:45:37 +0000

majoob;220324 wrote: pr0gr4mm3r, thanks for responding, but that's exactly the code I've been trying... minus the tabs. I tried it anyway... no go.

webwiz, "mod_rewrite" is nowhere to be found in my phpinfo() script.

So, maybe my question to you gurus should be this: what can I say / what wording can I use, to diplomatically convince my web host technical support folks that a) they are wrong, mod_rewrite ISNT installed, and b) while I may be a server-side scripting rookie, I'm not a complete idiot?

(Or maybe I am? Third opinions?)

Thanks in advance,
Matt

mod_rewrite doesn't appear in my phpinfo(). Probably because php on my server is compiled as a CGI module, and not an Apache module. Try some examples from that cheat sheet I posted. If those examples don't work, contact your host with the problem.

...and for the record, the code I posted was different than yours. Yours didn't work on my server until I removed those slashes in the two rules.

majoob — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:14:43 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r, thanks for responding, but that's exactly the code I've been trying... minus the tabs. I tried it anyway... no go.

webwiz, "mod_rewrite" is nowhere to be found in my phpinfo() script.

So, maybe my question to you gurus should be this: what can I say / what wording can I use, to diplomatically convince my web host technical support folks that a) they are wrong, mod_rewrite ISNT installed, and b) while I may be a server-side scripting rookie, I'm not a complete idiot?

(Or maybe I am? Third opinions?)

Thanks in advance,
Matt

Checking for mod_rewrite

webwiz — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:47:40 +0000

Check the output of your "echo phpinfo()" script once more. If mod-rewrite is installed, it will be listed in the Loaded Modules section of the listing. (The modules are listed alphabetically.) If it's not there, then your host service is misleading you.

Hope this helps.

pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:24:40 +0000

This cheat sheet could help you out.

For your specific question, this should work:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Mozilla.*
RewriteRule  ^$	/index.html  [L]
RewriteRule  ^$	/mobile/index.html  [L]